Emily Jones

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Emily Jones

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Shrimp are the quintessential Georgia seafood: the central ingredient of a Lowcountry boil, the subject of an annual festival on Jekyll Island, ubiquitous on coastal menus. But often, it turns out, the shrimp on those menus isn’t from Georgia. at 44 Savannah restaurants recently revealed that 34 of them were actually serving foreign shrimp.

Jan 16, 2025 | savannahnow.com | Emily Jones

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE andGrist, a nonprofit environmental media organizationFederal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales. The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are nearing extinction: just 370 remain, and vessel strikes are one of their leading causes of death.

Dec 7, 2024 | savannahnow.com | Emily Jones

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The number of longleaf pines is increasing across the Southeast, with some of the biggest improvements in Georgia, according to a new study from the U.S. Forest Service. Some 57 million acres of longleaf pine forest once stretched across the southeast from Virginia to Texas. But much of it was clear-cut for timber by the early 20th century.

Dec 6, 2024 | yahoo.com | Emily Jones

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The world’s oceans absorb nearly a third of global carbon dioxide emissions. Seagrass beds, in particular, are carbon-storing powerhouses. While less than 1% of the seafloor is made up of seagrass beds, those beds store about 11% of the ocean’s buried carbon, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Mar 4, 2024 | georgiarecorder.com | Emily Jones

by Emily Jones, Georgia Recorder March 4, 2024 Georgia’s energy regulators are considering Georgia Power’s request to generate and buy more electricity to meet what the utility calls a surge in demand from new businesses in the state. State lawmakers, meanwhile, are grappling with a leading source of that increased power demand: high-tech data centers.